London hospitals cutting 48 transcription employees - londoncommunitynews.com
By Paul Everest/London Community News/Twitter: @PaulEverest1
London hospitals are cutting 48 employees involved in transcription services in a bid to save roughly $1.3 million.
Tony LaRocca, vice-president of community and stakeholder relations for London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), said 14 full-time and 12 casual employees at LHSC and 14 full-time, two part-time and six casual employees at St. Joseph’s Hospital will be cut as of Nov. 13.
After that date, 100 per cent of transcription work at the hospitals will be outsourced to the Ottawa-based firm Accentus and LaRocca said the employees who are losing their jobs will be offered employment by that firm.
“It was important to the hospitals to mitigate this and we’re pleased we were able to do that,” he said.
Currently, 75 per cent of the transcription work— where the employees transcribe dictations from physicians— is outsourced to Accentus and the hospitals decided last year to increase that amount to 100 per cent to save money.
“It’s a proven model,” LaRocca said.
He added within one year of the cuts, LHSC will experience savings of roughly $1 million and St. Joseph’s will save $300,000.
The hospitals’ contract with Accentus for transcription services expired last year but was extended when the hospitals put out a request for proposals for firms interested in carrying out 100 per cent of the transcription work.
LaRocca said he was confident that most of the affected employees— who will be given severance packages— will find work with Accentus since the firm will likely be looking to hire more people to handle the increased transcription workload.
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